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March 2005 0.79 pre 1 released
improved keyboard driver from Mike.dld
source code cleanups by me
wait queues in kernel from me
MFAR from Mike.dld
Calendar from Ivushkin Andrey
XTree from Pavlushin Evgeni
CPUID from Sergey Kuzmin
new CPU from Mario 79
new FASM 1.57.1

March 2005 0.78 final released.

Dec 2004 Version 0.78 pre6 released
Nuvola icons for Menu from me and Sonny.
See files Icons.txt and Lgpl.txt

Dec 2004 Version 0.78 pre5 released
Freecell card game from Alexandr Gorbovets
Phenix 2D arcade game from Pavlushin Evgeni
AC97 player from Ivan Poddubny
CPUID from Sergey Kuzmin
3D Viewer & XPAINT
High port access ( above 16000 ) from me

Dec 2004 Version 0.78 pre4 released
Fat16 support from Mario79.
Precise CPU speed detection from Sergey Kuzmin.
New screen layout from me, Ville.

Sept 2004 Version 0.78 pre3 released
New screen layout, with a new panel application, graphics designed by Andrew Youll. The menus, applications and icons are completely under user control now - just edit MPANEL.DAT to make changes. You do not need to re-boot for changes to take effect. Ville has added an option to Window creation ( fn 0 ) to allow an application window to be unmovable, and an option to button creation ( fn 8 ) to allow it to not have a rectangle drawn around it when pressed. Mike Semenyako has improved the icon app so the text can be seen on light backgrounds. New background image by Andrew Youll. Mario79 has added a bug fix for the reporting of free space on FAT32 partitions.

Sept 2004 New applications added to download page
The freecell card game has been written for Menuet by Alexandr Gorbovets. Evgeni Pavlushin has updated his file browser Sysxtree, and produced some cute 3D demos. The files are on the applications page [here].

August 2004 Version 0.78 pre2 released
New screen layout, with .ico support for the desktop icons by mike.dld, and new icons from Andrew Youll. Ville has fixed a bug in the vesa1.2 background drawing routines, and mario79 has implement automatic memory detection at startup. I've improved the launcher app; It now takes the list of applications to start automatically from a textfile, so if you dont like having a jpeg image on the desktop, you can got back to PIC4!

August 2004 Dutch Menuetos website linked
This site also supports English. It has an easy windows installer for the latest release.

August 2004 Version 0.78 pre1 is out!
Take a look at the release notes on the download page for details. Bug fixes, new ethernet driver, ftp server and a new system function - resizing or moving application windows.

July 2004 I have added a link to a Menuet website in Portuguese. This website was the inspiration for the new look & feel of menuetos.org (ie, I copied it!)
I have added a screenshot of a Chinese language version of menuet - check it out, it looks great!

July 2004 After 4 years of effort, from original concept to what we have today, Ville is now moving on to new projects. He has handed over maintenance of Menuet to Mike Hibbett (me!). Ville will still be around, both on the forum and IRC, but has stepped back from the daily chore of bug fixes and patch management. Thanks Ville, and best wishes with your new projects!

July 2004 Jarek has made further improvements to his doom port; Check the forum entry here.

July 2004 Daneel has produced an interesting SDL demo of flying over a 3D landscape; check it out here. Note when downloading, rename the file from mnewvox.txt to mnewvox since it is actually a binary file.